True Love

Beauty and the Beast
Romeo and Juliet
Tristan and Isolde
Wesley and Buttercup
Jack and Rose

We can all agree that these are some of the greatest couples of all time, right?


WRONG

There is a significant pairing missing from this list.

Once upon a time, Alison and I used to have breakfast every weekday. We had a big break between classes, and I had a meal plan, and also we just love breakfast foods. We would sit and eat and make fun of people and it was super delightful.
Then it happened.
On some random day, with no real importance, we were shoveling bacon into our faces when some wonderful coincidence brought it close to us.
At a nearby table, eating a pancake and looking melancholy, was a person. Now, you should know that we often play a game called "Boy or Girl?" wherein we try and decide whether a person is a boy or a girl. Offensive, I know, but sometimes you just have to know.
This person was, without a doubt, one of the best examples we had seen yet.
Long hair, narrow build, SUPER tight pants, ambiguous accessories, awkward looking
This describes the person who would come to be called GirlBoy.
We eventually decided he was a boy, but he looked so like a girl that we wanted to honor his unknown origins. We chatted and laughed briefly and then let it be. We didn't assume we'd ever see him after that first morning.

BUT THEN
We saw him the next morning, and the next, and the next, and nearly every day for the rest of the quarter. That is when he earned the nickname, since we had to have a way to refer to him since we saw him all the time. Slowly it became obvious that he was to be Alison's one true love.
She would smile at the mere sight of him. Her heart fluttered. He would awkwardly look at us when she gasped super loudly, and think there was something wrong. 


After that quarter sightings dropped dramatically, since we no longer had a breakfast meeting. However, she would text me with great enthusiasm and delight whenever she saw him between classes.
"GIRLBOY" she would shout (via text) and we were always so hopeful that it would finally happen for them.


Alison imagined their life together: forever and ever in true love and happiness. They would get manicures together and facials. They could shop for pants in the same section of the Gap. They could give each other tips on styling their hair. 


It would be perfect.


We have been discussing possible names for him, and we want to go with something that is also ambiguous and could go either way.
We like Quinn. And Sam. And Alex. You know, things could go either way.
Someday we'll learn his real name.

Then they can be in love forever!
It'll happen, just wait and see.


Moral of the story: You can totally love someone without knowing them at all and it isn't weird or anything.